I keep getting into conversations with engineers where I talk about how desperately I want my database to support materialized views with incremental updates and too often I get a blank stare in response.

so I wrote a new post about why you should care! sophiebits.com/2025/08/22/m...

Wrote up my thoughts on the "extreme work culture" more and more AI startups expecting devs to work regularly late into the night and on weekends at AI startups.

I don't think it will change but cannot see this being healthy. (The hope of) money talks?

blog.pragmaticengineer.com/new-trend-ex...